Ron Johnson wrote:
Or more specifically, this line (allow-hotplug eth0) allows the first wired ethernet card (eth0) to be recognized as being plugged into an ethernet connection or not. As I understand it, this allows you to move your system from one wired Ethernet jack in one LAN (say in Building 4, Room 103) into another jack on another LAN (say in Building 27, Room 212), without manually restarting your network. It's really only useful for laptops. In my experience, it doesn't work very well, so I remove this line, and replace it with the line "auto eth0", which causes the interface to automatically connect only when the /etc/init.d/networking script is run with start or restart.-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/09/08 18:54, Walt L. Williams wrote:Ooops! sorry. There is only one file in my /etc/network directory. It's called interface and goes as follows:# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface allow-hotplug eth0You don't need this.
What makes you think the settings don't stick? Are you getting no IP address, or a different IP address, or what? If you're getting no IP address, I suspect it's the "allow-hotplug eth0" line, as Ron suggests.
iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.0.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 gateway 192.168.0.1 # dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed dns-nameservers 192.168.0.1 dns-search williams_home_network.lan
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